Terrell Davis put together one helluva resume, but that resume wasn’t changing.

“I played football 17 years ago,” he remembers oh-so-precisely.

The Broncos all-time leading rusher had been eligible for his sport’s greatest honor, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, for more than a decade, his one resume hole of longevity debated ad nauseam, his inability to get in shoved in his face year after year as his peers donned brand new gold jackets. Eventually, he began to emotionally hedge.

“There was a point,” he explained earlier this month. “About the sixth or seventh year when I was just constantly making the semifinalist list, but there was no one talking about me, I thought maybe it just wasn’t meant to be. People would come in, and they would go to the Hall, and I just thought it wasn’t meant to be.”

“I’d come out and say that if I didn’t make the Hall, I was fine with it and that it wouldn’t change my career,” he added with a guilty smirk. “I meant some of that. I didn’t mean all of it (laughs).”

Just as “TD” began to let go, though, life pulled him back in.

“About four years ago, when there became some momentum behind it, and people that weren’t in my corner started turning, I thought maybe something was happening,” he said. “I remember the day vividly. I was driving down the road with my wife, and I got a text that said I’d made it as a finalist for the Hall of Fame and I almost crashed the truck. I saw the text come through and we pulled over. My wife and I were just super excited about it. That was progress. We were now getting to a point that we were in that room. Then I became kind of rejuvenated about it. I thought maybe it was going to happen.”

In 2017, after a few more years of elevated hopes and heartbreak, it finally did.

In 2012, at the age of 20, Ryan became a credentialed reporter covering University of Colorado Athletics. . . despite wearing a wolf-tee to his interview.
A native of Boulder and a graduate of the university, he attended his 100th-consecutive Colorado Football home game in 2015.
Later in 2015, Ryan began spearheading the Broncos coverage here at BSN Denver, riding that wave all the way to San Francisco, where he covered his first Super Bowl.
Now 24, it seems 'RK' is trying to make up for that whole wolf-tee thing by overdressing at every event. He apologizes in advance for any cringe-worthy puns.